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power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State … 12% outside, capturing $410 million in land value gains out of the total $710 million from rezoning. The marginal gains … rezoning decisions across Queensland and Australia in the last few decades, suggests that many billions of dollars of economic …
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power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State … 12% outside, capturing $410 million in land value gains out of the total $710 million from rezoning. The marginal gains … rezoning decisions across Queensland and Australia in the last few decades, suggests that many billions of dollars of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273182
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …
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bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … that considers the implications of trust networks. A bond of trust may permit an implicit quid pro quo to substitute for a … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261925
This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...
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We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …
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We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The...
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One definition of social capital is the "networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular … this definition, is still very broad. Networks can be formed along many dimensions of society in which people interact … – neighborhoods, workplaces, extended families, schools, etc. We focus on networks whose existence fosters social capital in one …
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We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
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bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … that considers the implications of trust networks. A bond of trust may permit an implicit quid pro quo to substitute for a … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822899